"Just because we have one meeting in town it doesn't mean we're leaving Fallujah," he said.
As US troops continued to battle insurgents on the ground, the military was preparing for the trial of Specialist Jeremy Sivits in Baghdad on May 19, the first court martial of a soldier over the alleged abuse of prisoners.
The charges relate to Sivit's time as a guard at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, and include "maltreatment of detainees" as well as "failing to protect detainees from abuse, cruelty and maltreatment."
If found guilty, he could be jailed for a year, demoted, thrown out of the army, fined and lose two-thirds of his salary for up to a year, a military legal source said.
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